Archive

• Round the World with SFCRs - German insurers welcome interest rates tailwinds, but explore alts 'just in case'

  07 June 2024

  Fixed income and equities performance in 2023 wiped out write-downs many German insurers made in 2022

• AXA Leben investment income slumps 43% after transfer to AGER Leben

  03 June 2024

  AXA Leben pinpoints Deutsche Beamten Versicherung Leben as backbook spun off

• SFCRs shine light on German legacy life books, and investments, of Zurich and AXA

  16 April 2024

  Groups have planned, with mixed success, to sell the back-books to consolidators Viridium and Athora, respectively

• German lifers reveal liquid GAs as lapse risk rises

  10 May 2023

  BaFin last week warned insurers to be vigilant about tackling surrender rates as interest rates increase

• Attractive returns with policy guarantees "hardly possible" now in Germany, AXA Leben says

  04 May 2023

  Life unit continues tilt toward investment and part-guaranteed products

• German life CIOs breath out, as the 'great ZZR unwind' begins

  19 April 2023

  In past years, German lifers dispatched CIOs to raise cash to pay into their ZZRs - like it, or not. But that reversed, and sometimes heftily, as interest rates rose in 2022. David Walker reports

• Less onerous ZZR reserving relieves pressure to encash investments

  02 May 2019

  German life insurers welcome rule change which lower their contributions to their interest rate reserve

• R&V Leben tops investment performance among German life firms

  18 December 2018

  BaFin released figures for 2017

• Asset managers serving DB pensions have skills for life firms

  02 February 2018

  Frankfurter-Leben Gruppe among German insurers buying up pension investment assets